What are the hardware requirements for MiniCPM5 1B OptiQ 4bit?

MiniCPM5 1B OptiQ 4bit requires approximately 0.9 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed MiniCPM5 1B OptiQ 4bit and how large is it?

MiniCPM5 1B OptiQ 4bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 1b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate MiniCPM5 1B OptiQ 4bit?

MiniCPM5 1B OptiQ 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

MiniCPM5 1B OptiQ 4bit by mlx-community — VRAM 0.9GB, 128K context

Name: MiniCPM5 1B OptiQ 4bit
Author: mlx-community

MiniCPM5 1B OptiQ 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 1b LLM, VRAM: 0.9GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.29.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/MiniCPM5-1B-OptiQ-4bit

MiniCPM5 1B OptiQ 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	MiniCPM5 1B OptiQ 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/MiniCPM5-1B-OptiQ-4bit
Base Model(s)	MiniCPM5 1B openbmb/MiniCPM5-1B
Model Size	1b
Required VRAM	0.9 GB
Updated	2026-08-06
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	llama
Model Files	0.9 GB
Supported Languages	en zh
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	5.6.2
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	</s>
Vocabulary Size	130560
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Quantized Models of the MiniCPM5 1B OptiQ 4bit

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Humanizer 1B OptiQ 4bit	5	235	0 GB

Best Alternatives to MiniCPM5 1B OptiQ 4bit

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
...1B Agentic Tooluse Merged FP16	128K / 2.2 GB	2361	6
... Fable5 V2 Thinking OptiQ 4bit	128K / 0.9 GB	1564	5
Llama 3 8B Legal Chatbot Id	128K / 2.5 GB	744	0
MiniCPM5 1B 8bit	128K / 1.1 GB	1983	3
AeroCart Support Bot SFT	128K / 2.5 GB	241	1
...lama 3.2 1B Legal Id Finetuned	128K / 2.5 GB	192	0
Humanizer 1B OptiQ 4bit	128K / 0.9 GB	235	5
HRA Non Instruct Merged	128K / 2.5 GB	78	0
MiniCPM5 1B 4bit	128K / 0.6 GB	315	1
Llama 3.2 1B Legal Indo SFT	128K / 2.5 GB	45	0

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than mlx-community/MiniCPM5-1B-OptiQ-4bit.